336 AMERICAN SHIPYARD APPRENTICESHIPS, 



NUMBER OF APPOINTEES. 



Scholarships (a) and/or (&) and/or (c) (d) 



First Year 2 4 



Second Year 3 8 



Third Year 5 8 



FoiirthYear 6 8 



If in any year no candidates meet the requirements for a scholarship no appointment 

 should be made for that year. Candidates for appointment to scholarships (a), (b) or (c) 

 to have had the equivalent of a thorough high school course, which may be acquired by 

 attendance at evening preparatory schools or otherwise. 



No apprentice should be eligible to more than four years of scholarship work or 

 more than two successive scholarships, (a), (b) or (c) or more than three successive 

 scholarships (d). 



The company should reserve the right to revoke a scholarship at any time on evidence 

 that the recipient is not making a satisfactory record, and to change the number of ap- 

 pointees or to discontinue the plan at its option. 



In connection with scholarships (ai)> (^) ^^'^ (^) the company should pay the neces- 

 sary fees and tuition and provide a reasonable sum annually to cover subsistence for each 

 school term and to defray the cost of technical books, instruments, etc., which should be- 

 come the property of the apprentice. It is suggested that an allowance for traveling expenses, 

 equivalent to one round trip annually, be made. An expense account in detail on proper 

 form to be submitted monthly for approval. 



In connection with scholarship (d) the company should pay the necessary fees or tuition 

 in the school selected and provide a reasonable sum to defray the cost of books, instruments, 

 etc., which should become the property of the apprentice. 



On the above basis the cost to the company for the first year would amount to about 

 $1,900; second year to about $3,400; third year from $4,500 to $5,000 and for the fourth 

 year, and each subsequent year thereafter, from $4,400 to $5,950. 



Fifty per cent of the time spent away from the yard engaged on scholarships (a), 

 (&) or (c) to count as part of the student's apprenticeship. No time from the term of ap- 

 prenticeship to be deducted for scholarship (d). 



During attendance on scholarships (a), (b) or (c) the apprentice should not receive 

 the regular apprenticeship pay. He should serve in the works of the company during vaca- 

 tions, for which service he should be given the regular apprentice rate of pay. 



Some people object to the establishment of scholarships for apprentices on the ground 

 that the apprentice course is established primarily for the purpose of supplying skilled me- 

 chanics and that the offering of scholarships will tend to cause dissatisfaction among the 

 apprentices. It should be remembered, however, that in any large yard with, say, 200 ap- 

 prentices, there are found yearly some of marked ability and that such boys, while they may 

 serve out their apprentice course, will not continue as mechanics. Often these boys with 

 brilliant minds are without means and sometimes in our own experience we have known 

 them, after having served their apprenticeship, to enter college or technical schools under 

 handicapped conditions and still make good. It is believed that, if wisely conducted, the 

 granting of a few scholarships to the apprentices will attract a better class of boys to the 

 apprentice courses and will lead to the discovery, by the company, of a much larger num- 



